Austin Crone’s current practice involves patent application preparation and prosecution, patent validity and infringement analysis, and intellectual property rights enforcement. He files and prosecutes patents both domestically and internationally in the fields of software, electrical, and mechanical arts, including various technologies such as computer systems, financial systems, oilfield tools, and telecommunications. He is an expert in In re Bilski analysis, critical to software and business method patent development.

Over the years, Mr. Crone has assisted Fortune 50, Fortune 100, and Fortune 500 companies in patent prosecution. He has prepared and prosecuted applications in various subject matters, including synchronization, multimodal and pervasive computing, power management, memory management, multi-core processing, embedded systems, switched fabric applications, e-commerce, operating systems, virtual private networks, design-for-test techniques, downhole equipment, and signal processing.

Mr. Crone’s professional affiliations include the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Section, the American Bar Association, and MENSA. He is admitted to practice in the State of Texas and with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Crone attended the University of Missouri on a Curators Scholarship, completing a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1998. He was awarded an academic scholarship to the University of Houston Law Center, where he concentrated his studies in the university’s renowned intellectual property program.

He currently lives in Houston with his wife, Ryan, and son, Tybalt.